Riley Repko (Board of Advisors)

Riley Repko is the founder of Trusted Cyber Solutions (TCS), a product-based firm focused on providing the government and critical infrastructure verticals awareness to information/cyber security expertise. Riley’s strong market awareness and access coupled with his hands-on experience also serves to guide Virginia Tech as their Senior Research Fellow for cyber security. He consults with IT product and service providers assisting them with integrating technology solutions within agencies of the federal government. He serves to enable awareness, access and technical expertise to fill operational challenges with leading-edge solutions sought by private-sector and government clients.

Mr Repko has balanced his 27 year professional career with both the Air Force Reserves and the private-sector. Military leadership’s assignments have include space and military operations/planning, modeling and simulation, war-game and exercise support and in programming & budgeting positions at the combat command (COCOM), major command and headquarters USAF levels. In 2004, he deployed to Iraq with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing as chief of staff and vice commander. Since 2009, he has served as a government executive as senior advisor for cyber operations and transformation for the U.S. Air Force. He was responsible for leveraging existing cyber programs and policies and developing new transformational technology strategies paramount to supporting priorities in air, space, and cyber operations. Riley served as a functional expert collaborating with the Department of Defense, federal government organizations, and private industry on how to effectively integrate cyber capabilities with current operational forces within the Air Force. His private-sector experience includes executive positions with leading software and services IT companies specifically in information security management, business development, channel sales and P&L management. Executive positions in large companies have included Oracle, Siebel Systems, TRW and CACI both domestically and within the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Repko spent his early childhood days growing up in Asia.

Having a long history of working with innovative small and medium sized companies, Riley’s solid IT background leverages his strategic insight to drive new business. This includes advising transitioning military leaders, government executives and key decision-makers from within the cyber-security community of the private-sector. A primary area of interest is building the cyberspace engagement roadmap and ‘awareness engine’ between the public and private sector communities mapping government requirements to the information and cyber-security expertise that resides within the communities of the private-sector. He has both developed a proof-of-concept for this framework in 2010, testing his process in two major USAF and DoD war-games and subsequently since departing his post within government built a web-based prototype of this platform. A constant and responsive connector, Riley is most comfortable strategizing with and mentoring ‘key’ decision-makers within government, between leading-edge cyber technology providers, with recognized specialists from academia and with the venture capital community on finding solutions to operational requirements found within the private-sector communities. Mr Repko sits on the Board of Advisors of companies which include Accuvant Corp, Benchmark Executive Search and DecisionPoint Corp. He is a featured speaker at numerous cyber security and risk management events annually.

Mr Repko is a USAF Air War College graduate, has an MBA with honors from the Bill Greehey School of Business, St. Mary’s University, TX and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and a BS degree in Physics/Math with honors from St. Bonaventure University, NY. He has also studied at the National Defense University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He remains a featured speaker at numerous cyber security and risk management events annually to include Black-Hat and DEFCON, active with trade-associations such as AFCEA and the ASBC and has enjoys participating in both radio and TV commentary.